The presentation at Paris Photo 2025 of Jan Robert Leegte centers around two interconnected bodies of work: Wanderer is an autonomous, digital flâneur, a internet-based entity that traverses the physical world through a continuous sequence of directional choices. These decisions are recorded immutably on the blockchain and visualised through web-based map services.
Follow the 'Wanderer' here
https://wanderer.leegte.org/
Jan Robert Leegte
Ornament No.8, 2025
acrylic paint plotted on oak panel
80 x 60 x 1 cm
Unique
5.800,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
In dialogue with Wanderer, Ornaments present a new material iteration of Leegte’s long-standing investigation into digital ornamentation. This series consists of paint- on-wood-panel plotter works, each based on generative algorithms that produce complex bevelling structures, referencing both the aesthetics of GUI design and the architectural ornament.
Jan Robert Leegte
Ornament No.3, 2025
acrylic paint plotted on oak panel
80 x 60 x 1 cm
Unique
5.800,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
Jan Robert Leegte
Ornament No.6, 2025
acrylic paint plotted on oak panel
80 x 60 x 1 cm
Unique
5.800,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
The Ornament panels will be installed as an environment surrounding Wanderer, evoking a scenography in which generative ornamentation becomes both backdrop and structural frame for the algorithmic dérive.
Jan Robert Leegte
Ornament No.9, 2025
acrylic paint plotted on oak panel
80 x 60 x 1 cm
Unique
5.800,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
Jan Robert Leegte
Ornament No.4, 2025
acrylic paint plotted on oak panel
80 x 60 x 1 cm
Unique
5.800,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
Jan Robert Leegte
Ornament No.7, 2025
acrylic paint plotted on oak panel
80 x 60 x 1 cm
Unique
5.800,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
Jan Robert Leegte
Ornament No.10, 2025
acrylic paint plotted on oak panel
80 x 60 x 1 cm
Unique
5.800,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
Jan Robert Leegte
Ornament No.5, 2025
acrylic paint plotted on oak panel
80 x 60 x 1 cm
Unique
5.800,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
Together, Wanderer and Ornament form a spatial and conceptual installation that speaks to contemporary conditions of movement, memory, autonomy, and interface. The works complement one another in media, gesture, and art historical resonance — offering a dynamic, multi-sensory experience for Paris Photo visitors that bridges the immaterial logic of blockchain with the physical intimacy of paint and wood.
about Jan Robert Leegte
Jan Robert Leegte’s work has been exhibited internationally such as Whitechapel Gallery London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, ZKM Karlsruhe, Centre Pompidou Paris, Museum Ludwig Budapest and more.
More information about the artist here
